Spliced car side.



PATENTED 001'. 2,1906. H. W. WOLPP. SPLIGED GA'R SIDE. APPLICATION F ILBD EAR-19. 1906,,

Harbavb W Wolff by mm mm AUS'Q'S.

Witnesses u gmw UNITED STATES HERBERT W. WOLFE OF ST. LOUIS.

PATENT OFFICE.

MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SPLICED' CAR SIYDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2, 1906.

. I Application filed March 19, 1906- Serial No. 306,816.

tains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,formin part of this specification, in which igure 1 is a side elevational viewshowing a portion of a car side spliced according to my present invention. Fig. 2 is 'a top plan view of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 are lan views of modified forms of splicing mem ers,

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in spliced car sides, the object being to enable the use of short lengths of boards which constitute the containing side walls of the car.

In recent years the designs in railway rolling-stock have been changed considerably due to the employment of steel in car construction, particularly in the underframin of cars. Prior to the adoption of the stee underframes and when the underl'rames were made of wood the longitudinal sills and boards constituting the side wall usually extended from end to end without a break, this being possible on account of the comparatively short lengths of thewooden cars. The advent of the steel underframing, however, permitted an increase to be made in the length of cars, and such increase has resulted in the necessity for securing lumber commensurate with the increased len th of the cars. The .cost of such long lum er, however, is almost prohibitive, and I have therefore designed several forms of splicing arts or members, whereby the short lengt s of lumber may be used, it being desirable, of course, in the use of these shorter lengths to break joints, so as not to weaken the containposts, secured to the sill member -1, and 4 represents the boards constituting the side wall of the car. Fastened to alternate posts by means of bolts 3 are splicing members 2*, which are substantially U-shaped and are provided with laterally-extending flanges, as shown in Figs 1 and 2. The ends of the boards 4 are secured to these flanges by bolts, the flanges engaging the outer faces of the boards, and interposed between the portions of the legs of the Ushaped devices which project outwardly from the posts 3 are-fillers 1, which are secured to the posts 3 'by the same bolts 3 which connect said U-shaped devices to the posts.

Fig. 3 shows a modified formof my inven-- tion in which the splicing member 9 is substantially U-shaped, the same being secured to the ost at its center bymeans of a bolt,

whilet e ends of'the boards are secured totion is reversed.

Havin thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1 A combined reinforcement and \splice for cars of substantially U shape and having its center portion secured to the car stake or post; substantially as described.

2. A car-splice of U shape having fiat flanges on either side thereof, said flanges being secured to the car sides; substantially as described.

3. A combined reinforcement and splice for cars of U shape with flat flanges on either side; substantially as described.

-4. A car-splice of U shape with fl'an es secured to the outside of the car sides; su stantially as described. v

5. A car-splice of approximately U'sh'ape surrounding the side post inside of the car and provided with laterally-extending flanges IOO surrounding said posts and. projeqting out- I In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my wardly therefrom, flanges on said devices to signature, in the presence of two witnesses,-

which said boards are secured, and fillers inthis 14th day of March, 1906.

terposed between the portions of the legs of HERBERT WOLFF. said U-shaped devices which project beyond Witnesses: the outer faces of the side posts; substan- WELLS L. CHURCH,

tially as described. GEORGE BAKEWELL. 

